Well, the altitude would have to be excessively high

And unfortunately, few aircraft could carry that quantity of WHA high enough to have any appreciable impact

all assumptions

Far from it.

I'm a scientist

WHA is an incredibly dense material after all

carry one

drop it

Problem is carrying it indeed.

my favorite quote "Impossible is just an opinion"

They were designed to reach terminal velocity before impact

we have no idea the size. take a smaller one

all assumptions

Then it fails to produce adequate effects

need to see the experiment

WHA, while dense, would need to be of a sufficiently large size to produce nuclear fallout on impact.

my other favorite "one test is worth 1000 expert opinions"

For a similar concept on a smaller scale, see LOSAT

ah ok. never heard of it

While effective, it was also not nuclear.

At a certain point...

It is more useful to just use traditional nuclear ordnance

Or fire up a few TRIDENT IIs

Or MMIIIs

On an unrelated note, and if you don't wish to answer feel free to let me know, but you stated that you receive research grants, IIRC, for what purpose is your research for?

I am curious, especially if there are some interesting developments you could discuss.

no. I was being facetious. that's our challenge. we don't have a circa $20 billion budget like NASA. that's why we can't answer every question. people are doing the best they can with what they have at the moment....

Fair enough.

we have no budget

I'm just impressed to see every day folks trying to do experiments, learning the scientific method...

If you were to receive a budget though, do you suspect that some people would still not believe you regardless of your findings?

Aw that’s sweet... sorta

depends. If we can get some serious funding, we could bring some SMEs on board. hired as consultants. with solid pedigrees

I would start with high altitude balloon expts

lower barrier to entry

Indeed, it may be a loop of sort that as soon as any department receives funding, be it government or not, accusations of conflicts if interest may arise.

Ah, high altitude balloons

I know a thing or two about those, granted that project was never fully greenlit.

we could only hire people already retired from industry/academia

i.e. no risk to career

I'm going to do moon cooling experiments myself one day. that's easy enough. just the timing and weather conditions...